In Search of Lost Time Volume V The Captive & The Fugitive [Paperback]

The Modern Library’s fifth volume ofIn Search of Lost Timecontains bothThe Captive(1923) andThe Fugitive(1925). InThe Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. InThe Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection.

For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions ofÁ la recherché du temps perdu(the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).“Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.” —Graham GreeneMarcel Proustwas born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work onIn Search of Lost Timesometime around 1908, and the first volume,Swann’s Way,was published in 1913. In 1919 the second volume,Within a Budding Grove,won the Goncourt Prize, bringing Proust great and instantaneous fame. Two subsequent installments—The Guermantes Way(1920–21) andSodom and Gomorrah(1921)—appeared in his lifetime. The remaining volumes were published following Proust’s death on November 18, 1922:The Captivein 1923,The Fugitivein 1925, andTime Regainedin 1927.This discussion guide will assist readers in exploringIn Search of Lost Time. Hopefully, it will help create a bond not only between the book and the reader, but also between the members of the group. In your support of this book, please feel free to copy and distribute this guide tl£z